windows nt installation

[derin]

I COULD INSTALL WINDOWS 98 AND WINDOWS 2000 ON MY HARD DISK. BUT WHEN I TRIED INSTALLING WINDOWS NT4 IT WILL WILL SAY IT CAN NOT FIND D HARD DISK OR THERE IS A PROBLEM WRITING THE CHANGES ON THE HARD DISK. PLS WHO KNOW THE WAY FORWARD?

 

[djhawthorn]

How big is the disk?
Is it SCSI or IDE?
What File System is it formatted with currently, and what partition size(s)? MCSE NT4/W2K

 

[derin]

The hard disk is 40 gigabyte in size and it is an IDE disk. I tried using both the FAT16 and NTFS file system without luck.

 

[Alshrim]

Install NT4.0 with a 2 to 4 gig ntfs partition... it does not support anything bigger.

Once installed.. you can create a second partition in Disk Manager and format it with NTFS Alshrim
System Administrator
MCSE, MCP+Internet

 

[JimInKS]

You might look at Microsoft Knowledgebase article
Q197667 Installing Windows NT on a Large IDE Hard Disk.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q197667

You might also make sure that PNP OS is turned on in BIOS. I have had this cause problems with Win NT.

 

[JimInKS]

OOPS! I meant to say, make sure PNP OS is turned OFF in BIOS.